Alcohol tied to surprising cancer death pattern in adults under 55, researchers find
Annual U.S.cancer deaths tied to alcohol consumption more than doubled over a three-decade period, according to a recent study led by researchers at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.The findings, published in The Lancet Regional Health—Americas and presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, revealed that alcohol-attributable cancer deaths jumped from 11,361 in 1990 to 23,126 in 2023.Researchers analyzed more than 30 years of data from the Global Burden of Disease study to track the trends.BEER, WINE OR LIQUOR? MASSIVE STUDY REVEALS WHICH WAS LINKED TO LOWER DEATH RISKWhile alcohol has long been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, surveys show that awareness of its link to cancer remains limited."The most surprising finding was the breadth of alcohol’s potential impact across cancer types," Chinmay Jani, M.D., corresponding author of the study and chief fellow in hematology and oncology at Sylvester, told Fox News Digital.The study highlights that liquor may have a different risk profile than wine despite containing similar amounts of alcohol.
(iStock)"Although its relationship with liver cancer is widely recognized, its contribution to cancers such as colorectal, esophageal, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancer is less understood by the public."CANCER DOCTOR REVEALS 5 HABITS THAT MAY REDUCE DISEASE RISK AND IMPROVE OUTCOMESThe research showed that older adults and men bore the highest overall burden of alcohol-related cancer deaths.Among older men, liver cancer was the primary cause of alcohol-attributable mortality, followed closely by esophageal and colorectal cancers.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESBreast cancer was the leading cause of alcohol-related cancer deaths among women overall, the study found.Among younger adults between the ages of 20 and 54, colorectal cancer emerged as the leading cause of a...